Martha Graham Company web video contest

Be part of the legendary dance company at home with your own leetle web cam…

If ever you wanted to dance for the Martha Graham Dance Company, now’s your chance.

The company is launching a global competition asking anyone who’s cyber-savvy to transform the late choreographer’s masterpiece, “Clytemnestra,” into a brief online video.

The challenge: picking a character from the story and creating a four-minute scene linked to today’s life.

The winning footage in “The Clytemnestra ReMash Challenge” will premiere during the company’s New York season in May. The multi-media contest, (…) opens online on Feb. 1 with a March 31 deadline. (…)

Graham, who died in 1991, started the company that gave its first performance in 1926. With a bold new language of movement expressing the searing emotions of human experience, she put American modern dance on the world map. Her largest-scale work was “Clytemnestra,” with music by the Egyptian-born composer Halim El-Dabh.

A panel of experts in dance and media will select the winning video clip, which comes with $500 and the world premiere; second and third prizes are awarded $250 each and will also be showcased.
From Newsday.com.

Clytemnestra Challenge.

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